The International Cognitive Ability Resource

国际认知能力资源（ICAR）是一个公共领域和开源工具，旨在为各种各样的应用程序提供一个大型和动态的认知能力测量库。通过鼓励在世界各地有资质的研究小组中使用、修订和持续发展这些测量方法，ICAR将进一步了解认知能力的整体结构以及认知能力结构与其他变量之间关联的本质。ICAR将在很大程度上建立在自动项目生成技术上，产生具有可预测心理测量质量的项目。为ICAR开发的项目生成器将作为功能在心理测量学信息、易于实现的开源软件中分发。此外，将制定适当的统计方法，子项目将使用ICAR项目探索具体的研究问题。这一国际合作的影响将是在世界各地的学科和研究小组之间建立一个更标准化的评估和更快的科学进步的平台，这些学科和研究小组使用认知能力测量来诊断损伤，评估各种能力的相关性，并预测重要的生活结果。

The International Cognitive Ability Resource (ICAR), a public-domain and open-source tool, is to provide a large and dynamic bank of cognitive ability measures for use in a wide variety of applications. By encouraging the use, revision, and ongoing development of these measures among qualified research groups around the world, the ICAR will further understanding about the holistic structure of cognitive abilities as well as the nature of associations between cognitive ability constructs and other variables. ICAR will build heavily on automatic item generation techniques which yield items with predictable psychometric qualities. The item generators developed for the ICAR will be distributed as functions in psychometrically-informed, easily-implemented, open-source software. In addition, suitable statistical methodology will be developed and sub-projects will use ICAR items to explore specific research questions. The impact of this international collaboration will be the creation of a platform for more standardized assessment and more rapid scientific progress among the disciplines and research groups around the world which use cognitive ability measures to diagnose impairments, evaluate the correlates of various abilities, and predict important life outcomes.